Thursday, December 17, 2015

Concussion (PG-13 for profanity,
mature themes and disturbing images) David vs. Goliath saga about the
National Football League's attempt to discredit the forensic
pathologist (Will Smith) whose research established a
link between hits to the head and the early onset of a host of
neurological disorders in football players. Cast includes Gugu
Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin, Albert
Brooks, Hill Harper, Richard T. Jones, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and
Eddie Marsan.

Daddy's Home (PG-13 for profanity,
crude humor, suggestive material and mature themes) Dysfunctional
family dramedy about the competition between a resurfacing biological
father (Mark Wahlberg) and his ex-wife's (Linda Cardellini) new
husband (Will Ferrell) for the affection of the kids (Scarlett
Estevez and Owen Vaccaro) from the first marriage. With Thomas Haden
Church, Alessandra Ambrosio and Cedric Yarbrough.

Joy (PG-13 for brief profanity) David
O. Russell wrote and directed this fact-based drama about the
cash-strapped single-mom (Jennifer Lawrence) who turned her family's
fortunes around by inventing the Miracle Mop. Ensemble cast includes
Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Isabella Rossellini, Virginia Madsen,
Edgar Ramirez, Diane Ladd, Melissa Rivers, Susan Lucci and Drena De
Niro.

Point Break (PG-13 for violence,
profanity, sexuality, mature themes and drug use) Remake of the 1991
thriller about an FBI Agent (Luke Bracey) who infiltrates a gang of
globe-trotting, extreme sports daredevils suspected of staging a
string of daring, financial market heists. With Edgar Ramirez, Teresa
Palmer and Ray Winstone.

The Revenant (R for profanity,
graphic violence, gory images, brief nudity and a rape) Adaptation of
Michael Punke's tale of survival, set in Wyoming in 1823, about a
frontiersman's (Leonardo DiCaprio) harrowing ordeal after being mauled by a bear and left
to die in the wilderness by members of his hunting party. Support
cast includes Tom Hardy, Domnhall Gleeson and Will Poulter. (In
English, French and Native American dialects with subtitles)

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS

45 Years (R for profanity and brief
sexuality) Marital crisis drama about a couple (Charlotte Rampling
and Tom Courtenay) whose 45th anniversary party plans are jeopardized
by the discovery of the corpse of his girlfriend missing more than a
half-century. With Geraldine James, Dolly Wells and Hannah Chalmers.

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